The two easiest ways to change the name of a file or folder is to either , or select the file or folder and then press the F2 button.
click on it and selectTo change the name or permissions of a file or folder item, or if you have “selected” the file or folder, then you can use the Menubar -> option.
click on its name or icon and select theThis will bring up the Properties dialog box with two tabbed pages:
General, which gives you some information about the item and lets you change its name and, for a folder, the associated icon.
Permissions, which shows you the item's ownership and access permissions and lets you change the permissions.
If you want to make a copy of an existing file with a different name -- perhaps as a backup -- mdash; in the same folder as the original file, do a normal then when you it a dialog box will pop up complaining that the file already exists. Just type the new name into the dialog's text box and press the button (or if you are feeling lazy pressing the button will generate a new name for you).
If you are running as a normal user and try to access files outside of your own home folder you will often be prevented from doing so and get an error message such as Access Denied.
To access these files you need to be logged in as the system
administrator, often known as the Super User or root
.
Rather than logging out then in again, you can launch Konqueror from
the
Menu in Super User mode by selecting
->. You will be asked for the root
login password but as long as you can provide that Konqueror will be started
up with full access privileges to all files on your system.
Take care. As Super User (root
), you have complete control of
your system, and a wrong command can easily do irrevocable damage.
Also, connecting to the internet as root
is an extremely bad idea, as it
seriously increases your vulnerability to malicious hacking.
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